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04-21-2012, 10:09 PM | #1 |
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Asus Transformer Pad vs Apple iPad 3
Asus Transformer Pad Infinity 700 Specs
Processor: Tegra 3 (T33), quad core 1.6 Ghz Cortex A9 / dual core 1.5 Ghz S4 for LTE version Display: 10.1″ Super IPS+, 1920×1200 (224 PPI) Internal storage: 32 GB RAM: 1 GB Cameras: 8 MP rear camera, 2 MP front camera Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth 4.0, LTE (in other models) OS: Android 4.0 Battery: 25 Whr Dimensions:263 x 180.8 x 8.5 mm Weight: 586 g Price: $600 Wi-fi only 32 GB version Apple iPad (3rd gen) Specs Processor: Apple A5X, dual core 1 Ghz Cortex A9 Display: 9.7″ IPS, 2048×1536 (264 PPI) Internal storage: 16 GB RAM: 1 GB Cameras: 5 MP rear camera, VGA (0.3 MP) front camera Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, LTE (in other models) OS: iOS 5.1 Battery: 42.5 Whr Dimensions:241.2 x 185.7 x 9.4 mm Weight: 652 g Price: $500 Wi-Fi only, 16 GB version, $600 Wi-fi only 32 GB version Processor It looks like Apple didn’t increase the CPU performance at all over the iPad 2, and it’s the same dual core 1 Ghz Cortex A9 CPU as last year. This may pose a problem for the new Retina optimized app, and it will start to seem slower when compared to all the upcoming tablets that will show up within the next year by the time the 4th gen iPad appears. Android tablets are already starting to have either the quad core Tegra 3 chip with 1.3-1.6 Ghz per core or dual core 1.5 Ghz S4 chips, which are more like a dual core 2 Ghz Cortex A9 in terms of performance, to put it in perspective. I’ve said before that in most cases a dual core processor should outperform a quad core one if it has higher performance on each core, compared to a quad core chip with lower performance for each core. But in this case the iPad has lower performance for the 2 cores as well, and the Transformer Pad Infinity should have at least 60% higher performance in the browser and most other apps, because of its higher clocked cores. People may be forgetting this with Apple’s marketing of their new GPU, but it’s important to remember that although the GPU is important to push pixels on the screen in games and for the UI, the CPU is still by far the most important chip in the device, and most tasks are handled by it. This means you should pretty much always look for a device with a faster CPU, and the GPU should always be a lower priority. Display The iPad has a slightly higher resolution than the Transformer Pad Infinity here, with a 2048×1536 vs a 1920×1200 resolution, or 40 extra PPI (264 vs 224). This will help give text extra crispness for text, but the difference shouldn’t be noticeable. Plus none of them is actually “Retina”, meaning 300 PPI, according to research cited by Steve Jobs himself. As for movies, the extra resolution does nothing, because movies are still at most at 1080p, and both resolutions can let you run that at native resolution. I would argue one aspect makes the Transformer Pad Infinity even better at watching movies because of its 16:10 ratio. On an 4:3 iPad, the letterbox space will occupy 1/3 of the screen. The Super IPS+ screen seems to look better as well with higher brightness and less sunlight reflection. The video below also shows that even if Apple’s GPU may run certain (simple) things a lot better, it seems to be lacking in some graphics features, and Nvidia is actually focused on making games look better, rather than just winning benchmark tests for simple GPU tasks: RAM Both tablets will have 1 GB of RAM, and that’s actually one of the disappointing part for both tablets. 1 GB for tablets is pretty low, especially when it comes to browsing, which you do a lot more than on a phone. Plus, having these high resolutions means apps will run more data through RAM, which means it will feel “less” than before. Other upcoming tablets should have 2 GB of RAM throughout the year. Cameras The Transformer Pad Infinity seems to have higher MP cameras than the iPad in both cases (8 MP vs 5 MP, and 2 MP vs 0.3 MP), and it remains to be seen how the quality will compare, but to be honest I could care less about the rear camera on tablets. Who actually takes pictures with their cameras? And even if they do, it’s probably like a one time per month thing. I just don’t think it’s worth investing a lot of money into competing over this. Storage Both tablets are priced the same when having the same amount of storage (32 GB), but the iPad also has a 16 GB version. I think it’s unwise for Asus to not release a $500 16 GB version, too. While I agree that now with these high resolutions, apps will be 3-4x bigger in size (a 100 MB app will become 300 or 400 MB), so storage will feel much smaller than before, and it a good move to move towards 32 GB default storage for high-end tablets, it’s just not a very good decision to not have anything to compete at the $500 level. It’s a mistake Motorola already made with the Xoom. But perhaps Asus will release such a version by then. Battery Source Info http://www.androidauthority.com/asus...tablets-64372/
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